I’ve started a job search and need a portfolio. What’s a good website for creating my online portfolio that is easy to learn if I don’t know coding? Squarespace? Is there anything out there that is free but still professional? If no, I’m willing to pay a hosting fee.

I would want to mainly display links to books I’ve edited plus my writing samples (online journalism). Thanks in advance!

Hey. What are the best free platforms you guys know that can be used as a portfolio? I'm looking for something that still looks professional but doesn't take a lot of effort to set up or maintain.

EDIT: I just have a question about what I can use in my portfolio as a new writer.

My only paid experience is fiverr projects and writing for an online wellness magazine. Can I use these things on my portfolio given that they were used/published elsewhere without my name attached to them? In that case, would I sight the source where it was published in my portfolio?

Thanks!

I know this is a question that’s been asked here a lot but I still wanted to ask for some advice. I’m looking into creating an online portfolio to display all my samples.

For now, I’m getting all my work through Upwork so I display some samples in my portfolio there and I’ve just been sending links to PDFs of my other relevant samples to clients when submitting proposals which is fine for now but I’m determined to start finding working outside of upwork so I really want to build a portfolio elsewhere.

I’ve been looking into this for months but I can’t decide where I should do this. The most common recommendations that I see are:

-Wordpress website -Squarespace -Journo portfolio -Contently -Medium

I’m a little on the fence about them all.

I’m not sure if I need to build a whole website for this at the moment—I see a lot of people saying that it’s not entirely necessary to build a portfolio website, while others are adamant that you need one. I’m somewhere in the middle, so I’m not sure I’m willing to spend money on domain name/hosting, (and since I’m bad with things like this) paying someone to build it for me when I may find that it’s not as useful to me as I’d hoped.

With medium, I hear there’s a paywall so clients may not be able to access all articles? I don’t know much about the platform but I’ve seen a lot of people recommending it while a lot of people despise it. I haven’t been able to make my mind up on it yet.

With Journo portfolio, it seems you can only display 10 samples on the free plan. I think 10 samples is enough, but I’ve seen people say that contently allows an unlimited number of samples. I see a lot more praise for Journo portfolio but seemingly less limitations with Contently so I’m not sure which to go with.

I haven’t looked into squarespace much at all but it seems like a popular platform that might work well for a portfolio too. I’m looking into it!

Which of these sites do you recommend and if you use one of them, why do you like it and what made you decide to go with it?

I know I can just switch later if I decide to go with one and it doesn’t work out, but I’m really trying to make the right choice from the beginning to avoid having to move everything later down the road.

Thanks in advance!